King Creosote to Headline The Wake 2025

The Wake Saturday 23 August 2025

The Wake, the new festival set up by Green Man founders, Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan is returning in 2025. This time though, over the bank holiday weekend in August, where the festival will remain moving forward. The Wake will once again be for one day, but in 2025 there will also be camping.

Tickets for The Wake 2025 – https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-wake/loxwood-meadow/3245122

We are very excited to announce that our headliner for 2025 is King Creosote.

This announcement is particularly exciting for Jo and Danny as King Creosote was a regular performer (and still is) at the Green Man Festival, which was founded by the duo.

Since the mid-late 1990s, Kenny Anderson’s DIY pop alter-ego King Creosote has released over 100 records (at a relatively conservative guess), and his songs have been covered and performed by artists including Simple Minds and Patti Smith.

Many of his LPs, EPs and CDRs were self-released via Anderson’s homegrown Fife imprint, Fence-amid major label dalliances (2005’s KC Rules OK and 2007’s Bombshell on Warners), and a long-standing kinship with Domino Records, whose KC dispatches include Kenny and Beth’s Musakal Boat Rides (2003), the Mercury Prize-shortlisted Jon Hopkins union Diamond Mine (2011), and 2014’s From Scotland With Love, which soundtracked the award-winning film of the same name.

From his latest album, ‘I Des’, ‘Blue Marbled Elm Trees’

Jo adds ‘We are over the moon that Kenny, AKA King Creosote, is headlining The Wake in 2025. It’s now over twenty years since he performed at the first Green Man and became a regular fixture for us at those wonderful early Green Man weekends. Kenny’s musical output through the intervening years, right up to his latest, wonderful ‘I Des’ album has been astonishing and we are thrilled at the chance to see him perform on our gorgeous Woodland Stage. We are also very happy to add a camping ticket to The Wake in 2025’.

The first edition of The Wake, in July this year, sold out just three months after it was announced and six weeks before it took place.

In 2025, there will once again be three stages of music with Talks, DJs and a Children’s Area, more acts will be announced in January.

Tickets are Adult £37.50, 7 – 14 £10 and free to under 7s. Camping tickets can only be purchased with a festival ticket and cost a further £20 per pitch (up to 4 people).

And can be bought here.